GUARANTEED PRICE

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20782, 17 July 1937, Page 6

GUARANTEED PRICE

SHOULD BE INCREASED By Telegraph Pres? Association WHANGAREI. July 16. While some quarters estimate the increase in the guaranteed price this season at about 3d per lb., Mr F. Elliott, chairman o£ directors of the Hlkurangi Co-operative Dairy Company, Limited, at the annual meeting yesterday, considered that the Government should give favourable consideration to increasing the price, and that dairy suppliers would get something like a penny extra He did not expect a decision | until the Hon. W. Nash returned. He I also anticipated that the Government [ at an early date would take control of | the marketing of butter within New j Zealand. Mr Elliott made it ciear that his esti- ! mate was a purely individual assump- : tion, but based on good data. Heavy Traffic Licenses Suppliers of the Hikurangl Dairy Co. : yesterday passed a resolution strongly ; protesting against the powers vetoing I the issuing of heavy traffic licenses i placed in the hands of Master Carriers’ ' Associations, an interested party and , it was the opinion that producers’ re- | presentatives should have that power, i

Mr A. Wibiin referred to the system as being worse than Tammany Hall, j and said there was a prospect of the j directors having to crawl on hands and knees to the master carriers to have i their cream carted. On one run, he understood on good authority, the Carriers’ Assjciation would attempt to prevent farmers possessing trucks from carting manure and goods from railway stations. The chairman, Mr F. Elliott, said he was surprised at the altered statement by Mr E. J. Phelan, No. 1 Licensing Authority, to the effect that his future attitude would be influenced largely by the wishes of the Carriers’ Association. | Giving Up Dairying Reference to the current tendency of backblock settlers to give up dairying for other forms of primary production, was made by Mr M. Dempster. He believed that unless assistance was given by extended cream collection facilities the farmers in remote districts would find other ways of earning a livelihood, A speaker drew attention to the large number of clearing sales, and said that dairymen were not selling thenherds because they had ceased to love money. They would still be “cow cockles,” but realised the hardship of the milkers’ life, which, under present regulations, were more difficult than ever. Before long a tremendous number would give up dairying to run fat stock or sheep, or walk off the farms altogether.